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Description: | Photocopy of a ts memoir (33pp) covering his service in the ranks with the 2/28th Battalion London Regiment (the Artists Rifles) in training in the United Kingdom, June - December 1915; as a subaltern with the 2/6th Battalion Manchester Regiment (66th Division), December 1915 - July 1917, including service in France, March - July 1917; with the 5th (Reserve) Battalion Manchester Regiment at Scarborough; and with the 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (24th Division) in France, April 1918 - January 1919; describing the attacks on Nieuport during the 3rd Battle of Ypres (31 July 1917) and on Wargnies-le-Grand, south of Valenciennes (3 November 1918), and provides comments on the poets Wilfred Owen and Richard Aldington with whom he came into contact and served alongside; also an ms letter (5pp) sent to Bate by a friend "in the event of my death".
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Catalogue date 1980-09-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 9th Battalion 2/6th Battalion British Army 24th Division 5th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) 2/28th (County of London) Battalion 66th Division Manchester Regiment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bate, Herbert Roland | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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